Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyundai auto factory
摘要
现代汽车工会因公司计划部署人形机器人而发起部分罢工，这是有组织劳工对最新一轮机器人自动化最显著的抵制。罢工发生在韩国蔚山的现代汽车生产园区，被《华尔街日报》称为“汽车行业首次因应对人形机器人而导致的工厂停工”。工人们已从7月13日至15日提前两小时结束班次，并计划在7月20日至22日进行四小时罢工。工会的抵制始于现代汽车集团今年初发布波士顿动力公司的人形机器
Thousands of unionized Hyundai auto workers began walking off the job early after negotiations with the South Korean automaker broke down over plans to deploy humanoid robots—the most significant pushback from organized labor so far over the latest wave of robotic automation.
The partial strike at Hyundai’s automotive production complex in the city of Ulsan in South Korea represents “the car industry’s first factory stoppage addressing humanoid robots,” according to The Wall Street Journal. Workers have already ended their day and night shifts two hours early at the world’s largest automotive plant from July 13 through July 15, and plan to start staging four-hour strikes from July 20 to 22 after 15 rounds of negotiations failed to reach an agreement, The Korea Times reported.
Union pushback began as soon as Hyundai Motor Group unveiled the latest version of the Atlas humanoid robot, a two-legged robot that stands at more than 6 feet tall and can lift more than 100 pounds, at the start of this year. Atlas is made by Boston Dynamics, the US robotics company that is about to become a wholly owned subsidiary of Hyundai.
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